Archive for July, 2014
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The Surprise in Jack Kingston’s Loss in the Georgia Runoff
Posted on July 24, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank.) That Rep. Jack Kingston lost his primary race for the open Senate seat in Georgia Tuesday night wasn’t a complete shock. It was going...
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Expanding the Size of the Senate?
Posted on July 23, 2014
There’s nothing sacred about having 100 Senators and 435 Members of the House of Representatives. It was 103 years ago, in August of 1911, when Congress passed the Apportionment Act,...
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Obama’s Immigration Crisis
Posted on July 21, 2014
Originally published on The Hill Incompetence breeds contempt. It’s not easy to alienate black voters, Hispanic voters and conservative white voters all at the same time on the same issue,...
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What If the Hard Right Drives Big Business Into Arms of The Left?
Posted on July 17, 2014
(This is originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank.) Amid the fight for the soul of the Republican Party, some elements of the GOP coalition have become overtly...
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Patriotism and Corporate Inversions
Posted on July 17, 2014
It annoys me when Tea Party groups that want to dismember the Federal Government and urge insurrection and nullification against the President call themselves patriots and imply that anybody who...
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